Hunt on for pit bulls that killed woman’s dog during Jersey Shore walk

Police were still searching Monday for the owner of two pit bulls that attacked and killed a woman’s dog while she was walking it in Barnegat this weekend.

The attack happened at 2:13 p.m. on Sunday near 169 Redwood Drive in the Jersey Shore town when the two pit bulls, a gray one and another with “white and brown markings," emerged from between two mobile homes and ran at the woman’s leashed dog, according to a release from the Barnegat Police.

As the woman yelled for help, two residents tried to separate the dogs by pulling them apart and even hit the pit bulls with a pipe, officials said.

The dogs then ran from the area but not before injuring the woman’s dog to the point where it died from its wounds while it was being taken to an emergency vet, authorities said.

The two people who tried to separate the dogs suffered multiple lacerations to their arms and and “knee pain," the release stated.

Police checked homes in the area where the attack occurred for “several hours” to see if the dogs matching the description given by the woman were there, but could not find them. The Stafford Police Department was also notified because the incident occurred close to Barnegat’s border with the town.

Anyone with information on the location of the dogs or their owners was asked to cal 609-698-5000 and was warned not to confront the dogs if they were found.